We performed a comparison between Grafana and Prometheus based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Users prefer Grafana to Prometheus because it has better visualization tools, more customizable graphs, and a more user-friendly interface. Although Prometheus is known for its flexibility and integration capabilities, it lacks user-friendliness and reporting capabilities. Furthermore, Grafana provides better customer service and support, with a helpful community and good documentation.
"This solution provides valuable insights into the health of our infrastructure in real time."
"The most valuable aspect is customization. There are many customizations possible, so I like that."
"The best feature was the creation of graphs and trends."
"It is easy to change and move virtual servers."
"Grafana is a very scalable product. It's a really good product."
"The installation process is easy. We have deployed it on the cloud. I have around 20 to 30 people using the solution in my company."
"The most valuable feature of Grafana is the ease to build dashboards from observability construction. Additionally, the page services and integration are good."
"What I found most valuable in Grafana is that it has a lot of integrations and features that I need for data processing and visualization."
"It is a stable solution...Based on the feedback I have received from my colleagues in our company's IT department, the setup phase of the solution is relatively easy."
"Prometheus gives us high availability automatically."
"Prometheus is a great solution for monitoring."
"The most valuable features of Prometheus for metrics collection and monitoring are its stability, robustness, and rich set of features."
"I like its lightweight configuration functions."
"The solution helps us to scale our products and services, and it helps me by gathering those metrics."
"The scalability of Prometheus is very good."
"The solution can be deployed in thirty minutes."
"If there was an issue on one node, we couldn't drill down and see all the issues on other nodes."
"It would be helpful if they simplified the data source."
"Multiple dashboards combined into one dashboard has slowed things down for us."
"They should improve the functioning of its editing tool."
"The solution has room for improvement with a better API to help automate the construction of the dashboards easier."
"I would like the ability to download my results into any format in order to share the information with my clients."
"The service dashboard is very hard and needs improvement."
"There are not a lot of plugins for financial market monitoring."
"The alert functionality is kind of lackluster."
"When it comes to deployment, if you have no experience with something like a CI/CD pipeline, it might be a challenge."
"The primary area where Prometheus could be improved is in terms of pricing, particularly when used with managed services."
"The solution's error handling part could be improved."
"If you want to collect details of metrics, you should be able to write a query for it directly. I want the product to offer better queries for the metrics."
"Prometheus has a learning curve when setting it up. It definitely requires a little bit more hands-on than other solutions. It is an open source solution which means you do need to go through and read the literature that they have online for setting it up. The setup could be made easier."
"They could provide efficient logs in terms of clarity and ease of access similar to Datadog’s paid version."
"Its documentation could be clearer to understand."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 reviews while Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews. Grafana is rated 8.0, while Prometheus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Prometheus writes "A very flexible open box that can be used vastly to do anything you need". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Elastic Observability, whereas Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and Apache SkyWalking. See our Grafana vs. Prometheus report.
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